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Buying A Home In Detroit Is Now Only A Mouse-Click Away

April 15, 2014, 7:10 AM

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced a new website Monday that will host auctions of fixable homes that his administration takes from negligent landowners who’ve left them vacant, Matt Helms reports in the Free Press.

The website — www.buildingdetroit.org — went live Monday.

It will be the clearinghouse for the auctions of homes that the city offers through a program Duggan announced last week in which Detroit goes to court to force owners of vacant homes to fix them up and get them occupied or risk deeding them to the city.

The first 15 homes will begin being auctioned in early May. Twelve of them are in the city’s East English Village neighborhood on the city’s east side, some in very good condition and some needing renovations. The first auction will be May 5; the homes and schedule are available on the web site.


Read more:  Detroit Free Press


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